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...second part of his speech-and the most powerful in emotional content-is a really gorgeous exhortation. It is filled with quotable sentences. The next edition of Bartlett's book of quotations may have several lines from this Philadelphia speech. As for instance, This generation has a rendezvous with destiny or Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference...
...where her father (Nigel Bruce) has settled down to teach music. This intention, constantly delayed by the financial troubles of the Forrester family, is finally thwarted when Aunt Louise and Uncle Tony move in with their out-of-work opera troupe. The troupe's star and manager (Michael Bartlett) decides to present an opera written by Tony for the amusement of Kentucky Derby crowds. Success depends upon getting Soprano Marian to lend her voice. She refuses. How the handsome manager-star finally wins her support in the lavish spectacle solves both her amatory and the family's financial...
...BARTLETT...
...mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas, The Red Mill, Rose of Algeria, Sweethearts. Price: $50,000 each...
...children lived to grow up: Ella Victoria, who as Mrs. Robert Stevens Bartlett lives in Manhattan, and Clifford Victor, who enjoys himself in California...